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Risk, resilience, and security – the three key functions of public safety technology

Open Access Government - Technology News

On the other hand, understanding emergency processes for response develops resilience to risk. Public safety technology includes public safety platforms First, managing communications properly and responding to a crisis in an organised manner requires a holistic and well-coordinated approach.

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Supply Skepticism Revisited: What New Research Shows About the Impact of Supply on Affordability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

But as concerns about gentrification and displacement in urban areas have become more widespread, supply skepticism has expanded from the traditional anti-development constituencies to renters and social advocates fighting for equitable neighborhood planning. “We need all hands on deck producing all housing.”

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How ETH Library uses Apigee to make its open data holdings available to the public

Google Public Sector

The mission of the ETH Library is to ensure the access of information to employees and students of ETH Zurich and other universities worldwide, to the public, and to companies engaged in research and development. The current application landscape is rather isolated.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Quarantelli and Dynes (1970) developed a three-stage model whereby property norms are progressively abandoned as a neighbourhood descends into an outbreak of uncontrolled looting. However, by the Haiti earthquake of 2010, a different picture had become to emerge and establish itself (Alexander 2010). References Alexander, D.E.

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How ETH Library uses Apigee to make its open data holdings available to the public

Google Public Sector

The mission of the ETH Library is to ensure the access of information to employees and students of ETH Zurich and other universities worldwide, to the public, and to companies engaged in research and development. The current application landscape is rather isolated.

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. The city developed a capacity building and training infrastructure to support it.

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Innovating, investing, and improving: AWS Summit New Delhi and AWS Summit Singapore 2022 keynote recaps

AWS Public Sector Blog

Shri Jayesh Ranjan, principal secretary at the Information Technology, Electronics & Communications Department of the government of Telangana, India, took the stage to share his organization’s journey to the cloud. India has one of the largest developer user bases in the world and the third largest startup network.